Quotes About Tribute

The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it--as proof, as sanction, as reward--into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

When a man dies they fetch him with a stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters with a blanket over him, and a flag covers him as he goes out. When he came in he was one of a convoy, but every man who can stand rises to his feet as he goes out. Then they play him to his funeral, to a grass mound at the back of the hospital.

I bring messages and thanks from the others. Terry Gilliam sadly can't be with us tonight as they won't let him show his ass, which has been very favorably compared with Spielberg's ass. Graham Chapman can't be with us tonight, as sadly he is still dead. And John Cleese is finishing a movie. He has to get it back to Blockbuster by tomorrow.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.

For me personally and for the entire Fed, Don's retirement was a great loss. He

the enduring human need to be remembered.

We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.

I think you have to show homage to creators.

The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.'

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.

The most challenging part of playing Magenta was knowing that there have been so many great Magentas before me, including Patricia Quinn in the original 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'.

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.

You may think your tribute is paid in secret in the recesses of your heart, but it will out. We are a curious species when it comes to worship. The things that dominate our imagination determine our lives and our character. Therefore it behoves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. - Kyril Sindermann

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

Putting money into a cenotaph is not really worth it.